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sector production. The model is calibrated to Egypt and used to study reforms such as reductions in energy subsidies with …
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This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets of seven emerging countries, the first without Islamic banks, and the second with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks. Unlike previous studies,...
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estimate the size of the shadow economy in Egypt during the last four decades (1976 to 2013). In addition to the standard …
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Young People in Egypt (HSYPE). Difference-in-difference estimations show that the revolution significantly decreased the …
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This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 … Egypt are mainly due to variations in income, household size, and housing type. Our findings document substantial … policy implications regarding residential energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in Egypt. …
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This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … to 2013, the impulse response analysis shows that the response of the shadow economy in Egypt to positive shocks in … globalization by reducing the costs of doing business and trade in dealing with sizable shadow economy in Egypt. …
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Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...
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Several developing economies witnessed a large number of systemic financial and currency crises since the 1980s which resulted in severe economic, social, and political problems. The devastating impact of the 1982 and 1994-95 Mexican crises, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian...
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This paper proposes a macro-prudential financial soundness analysis that can be used by most developing and transformation countries with or without crisis experience as well as by developed countries with limited data. The objective is to detect economic and financial sector vulnerability,...
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